I’ve done some minor research on this, and it seems as though the bow and arrow is thought to have arrived from Siberia about 3000 BCE, but there is some evidence to the contrary. Well, the question is, what do you guys think?
The bow is present in almost every culture around the world, so I would assume it existed at the very least. Note also that the Spanish brought crossbows with them, which do not seem to have been adopted elsewhere in the New World.
There is some evidence that the bow came from Africa. Arow heads have been discovered in South Africa that are over 60 thousand years old.
I’ve done some minor research on this, and it seems as though the bow and arrow is thought to have arrived from Siberia about 3000 BCE, but there is some evidence to the contrary. Well, the question is, what do you guys think?
It is not absolutely conclusive that the arrowhead found in Africa were used in bows. There are a number of ways you can Shoot an arrow . However, it's the similarity of size and shape to later arrows that were used in bows that would suggest they were. The actual bows are a rare find. But some have been found in peat bogs. One of the oldest was found in New Zeland and has been dated to around ten thousand years old. There have been some found in northern Europ of a similar age. It would seem once Humans started using flint, knives and attacheding them to the end of a piece of wood soon followed.I’m not sure if I’m reading this correctly...are you suggesting that the bow came out of Africa when humans did?
I worked on an archeology team in Pennsylvania one summer. The archeologist leading the team told me that bows became common in North America around 1000AD. The vast majority of stone 'arrowheads' people find are actually spear points.
That's extremely impressive given that humans have been in New Zealand for less than a thousand years. And that bows were used in New Zealand little if at all at the time of European contact.The actual bows are a rare find. But some have been found in peat bogs. One of the oldest was found in New Zeland and has been dated to around ten thousand years old.
I have never heard of any Polynesians using bows at all and I definitely know that the Maori never used them. I think the oldest definitive bow was found in Zealand, as in Denmark.That's extremely impressive given that humans have been in New Zealand for less than a thousand years. And that bows were used in New Zealand little if at all at the time of European contact.
Bows and arrows are also common among the highly isolated Jarawa on North Sentinel Island and Amzonian Rain Forest tribes. But it never seems to have found its way to Australia...?The bow is present in almost every culture around the world, so I would assume it existed at the very least. Note also that the Spanish brought crossbows with them, which do not seem to have been adopted elsewhere in the New World.
Didn´t some of the Mezoamerican high cultures had an ege over their enemies because of using archery ?I worked on an archeology team in Pennsylvania one summer. The archeologist leading the team told me that bows became common in North America around 1000AD. The vast majority of stone 'arrowheads' people find are actually spear points.
Not that I'm aware of, bows didn't start appearing in Mesoamerica until the Terminal Classic at the earliest and I can't recall any instances of archery giving them a decisive edge over anybody. In fact I think it was the nomads to the north of Central Mexico who spread its use southward.Didn´t some of the Mezoamerican high cultures had an ege over their enemies because of using archery ?